indian-ed.orgGeneral Social Studies Resources:

Historical Thinking Matters
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Stanford History Education Group- "Thinking Like a Historian" Lesson Plans
Digital History (includes an online textbook, primary sources, and more)
Library of Congress (includes primary source sets, lesson plans, and more)
Internet History Sourcebooks (compilations of historical texts)
teachinghistory.org


1. Worksheet that helps students FRAME SENTENCES for ACADEMIC LANGUAGE specifically for Social Studies!

2. Fantastic set of documents that list, define and apply ACADEMIC LANGUAGE for Secondary Social Studies.

3. 1940s UK radio--lots of great songs from the WWII era.

4. The BBC has a ton of information on a lot of religions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/

5. Reading Strategies for Social Studies:
http://www.readingquest.org/strat/

6. Inquiry Lessons:
teachinghistory.org, "What is an 'inquiry lesson?'"
Writing Inquiry-Based Social Studies Lessons (also includes a good list of collaborative skills at the end)

7. DocsTeach.org - National Archives created web quests using real primary sources. Scaffolded and deep lessons.

8. http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu/ Digital History Reader. US History and European History web quests.

9. Densho.org - Everything you would ever need to teach Japanese Internment. Web quests, entire units, activities, primary sources.

10. Indian-ed.org - Created by Washington State OSPI. Full units, CBA ideas, primary sources galore. All around this is pretty awesome.